Rocket body · NORAD 6202 · COSPAR 1972-073B
DELTA 1 R/B(1)
- Operator United States
- Constellation —
- Country United States
Altitude now
—
object decayed
Velocity
—
Inclination
28.78°
Period
89.7 min
89.7 min
Perigee
154km
Apogee
368km
orbit unavailableNo orbital element set on file — decayed 26 Sept 1972.· Metadata updated 22 h ago
Live position
Live position
Live position unavailable — this object re-entered the atmosphere on 26 Sept 1972 and is no longer tracked.
Mission
Mission & classification
- Mission type derived
- Rocket body
- Object type
- Rocket body
- SATCAT ops status
- Decayed [D]
- Radar cross-section
- —
CelesTrak groups
Not listed in any CelesTrak group.
Aliases
- DELTA 1 R/B(1)Celestrak Satcat
Ownership
Operator & country
- Operator
- —
- SATCAT owner code
- US · United States
- Country
- United States US
Launch
Launch
- Launch date
- 23 Sept 1972
- COSPAR launch id
- 1972-073
Objects from the same launch · 4
- DELTA 1 DEB6204DebrisDecayed
- DELTA 1 DEB6205DebrisDecayed
- EXPLORER 47 (IMP-7)6197PayloadUnknown
- DELTA 1 R/B(2)6203Rocket bodyDecayed
Change log
History
No changes recorded since first ingestion on 11 Sept 2026 18:54 UTC. Status, orbit class, name and ownership changes are logged here as sources are re-ingested.
Regulatory
UN registration
Transparency
Sources & provenance
No source is linked to this record yet — the catalogue row exists but no provenance entry has been written for it.
Field provenance
No field-level provenance recorded.
Timeline
Events
No events detected for this object yet. Launches, decays and orbit changes are generated by the derived-analytics connector.
Reference
Identifiers
- NORAD catalogue number
- 6202
- COSPAR / international designator
- 1972-073B
- SatelliteIndex id
- sat_01M28X3JKCHWZSMKS978TWAP1C
- Canonical slug
- delta-1-r-b-1-6202
Orbit class, mission type and constellation membership are derived by SatelliteIndex (Rocket body) — see the methodology. Positions are propagated estimates, not tracking measurements; never use them for conjunction assessment.